Allentown police said a man tried to force a woman into a car at gunpoint Saturday, claiming he was a police officer.

Jose Aristides Diaz-Brito, 45, is charged with impersonating a police officer, kidnapping, simple assault and terroristic threats. Diaz-Brito, of the 500 block of Ridge Avenue in Allentown, was sent to Lehigh County Jail under $60,000 bail.

According to police:

Just before 2:30 a.m., police were called to Seventh and Liberty streets on a report of an armed man who had tried to rob two people.

The man and woman told police as they were walking, a car pulled next to them and a man identified as Diaz-Brito got out. He pulled a handgun from his left pocket and pointed it at the man and woman, telling them he was a police officer.

Diaz-Brito told them to put their hands on a building wall and they asked to see his badge. When Diaz-Brito didn't show one, the man began yelling.

Diaz-Brito then attempted to force the woman into the car, but she refused to go with him. Diaz-Brito then got into the car and drove away.

Police said the vehicle was later stopped in the 400 block of North Sixth Street. The man and woman identified Diaz-Brito as the man with the gun.